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Finally, APC loses control of Adamawa, PDP gets one more in northeast
The PDP guber candidate in has emerged winner of Adamawa Governorship election.
The Returning Officer of the election, Prof. Andrew Haruna, who declared the result Thursday in Yola after the supplementary election in 44 units across 14 local government areas of the state said Ahmadu Fintir polled 376,552 votes to defeat his closest rival, Gov. Muhammadu Bindow of APC who scored 336,386 votes.
Sen. Abdul-Azeez Nyako of ADC scored 113,237 votes, while Chief Emmanuel Bello of SDP got 29,792 votes.
Fintri was the Speaker of Adamawa House of Assembly in 2014 and also served as Acting Governor in July 2014 following the impeachment of then Gov. Murtala Nyako.
The victory makes the PDP in control of two states across the northeast, Bauchi being the first that fell to the opposition.
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